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May 28, 2012
Drunk_driving
The following articles have been tagged with "Drunk_driving":
Drunk man charged with hijacking brewery truck
National: 26 Apr 12
An inebriated man from southeastern Sweden has been charged with hijacking a brewery truck loaded full of empty bottles outside one of Sweden’s state run alcohol retailers, spreading broken glass in his wake.
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Texting behind the wheel 'harmless': agency
National: 11 Apr 12
There is no reason to ban texting and talking on mobile phones without hands-free while driving, according to a report from the Swedish National Road and Transport Institute, handed to the government on Wednesday.
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Convicted lay judges found working in Sweden
National: 20 Feb 12
The discovery that several of Sweden's lay judges have continued to work while having criminal records of their own has resulted in many either stepping down or being fired.
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Triple murderer in new Finnish jail break
National: 23 Nov 11
A Finnish man, previously convicted of murdering three people in northern Sweden in 1988, escaped from a prison in Finland on Wednesday morning where he was serving time for drunk driving.
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Swedish 'baby boomer' crime on the rise: agency
National: 28 Oct 11
The number of elderly criminal suspects in Sweden is increasing, according to new statistics, with indecent exposure and drunk driving among the most common offences.
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Border cop convicted after sex bribe attempt
National: 6 Oct 11
An officer with the Swedish border police in Västra Götaland was convicted Wednesday for offering a female asylum seeker to ”forget about her case” in return for sex and drugs.
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'Walking a scooter while drunk is a crime': court
National: 14 Apr 11
Pedaling a scooter forward with your feet while inebriated constitutes drunken driving, Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled.
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Sweden mulls ban on texting while driving
Politics: 4 Apr 11
Sweden's Riksdag backs the banning of texting while driving and the introduction of a hands-free requirement while making calls at the wheel.
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Drunk driving Swedish police rarely fired: report
Society: 18 Feb 11
Despite 55 serving police officers being caught drink driving over the past five years, only one has lost his job, statistics published on Thursday showed.
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Drunk Swede drove to police station to pick up drunk friend
Society: 17 Feb 11
A 28-year-old man is facing drunk driving charges after he drove to a police station in Malmö in southern Sweden to pick up his friend who had been arrested for driving under the influence earlier that day.
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'Alcolocks' for all new cars: Social Democrats
Society: 12 Nov 10
The Social Democrats have proposed that all new cars sold in Sweden be equipped with ignition locks to prevent a vehicle from starting if the driver is intoxicated.
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Police kept busy on Midsummer Eve
National: 26 Jun 10
Police in many parts of Sweden were fully occupied on Midsummer Eve dealing with everything from drunken fights to half naked men driving a lawnmower on the motorway.
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Trial witness shot in Malmö
National: 26 May 10
A man who was due to testify against a member of the Black Cobra criminal gang has been shot at a bus stop in Malmö.
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Obese drunk driver: 'I'm too fat for jail'
National: 1 Mar 10
A 60-year-old man man convicted of drunk driving in northern Sweden has applied to the government for a pardon on the grounds that he is too fat to go to jail.
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Flight crews warned off the booze
National: 6 Feb 10
Sweden has always been very tough about drunk driving on the nation’s highways. New regulations are now being extended to flight crews.
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Violence against women tops list of police crimes
National: 7 Oct 09
Acts of violence against women accounted for more indictments against off duty police officers than any other crime in the last decade, a new study shows.
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Drunk driving suspect: I got plastered after stopping the car
Society: 11 Sep 09
A driver arrested in southern Sweden with a high concentration of alcohol in his blood has been cleared of any wrongdoing after convincing jurors that he first started drinking in the moments after he stopped his car.
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Young men at greater risk for alcohol dependence
National: 7 Sep 09
The number of young men who risk becoming dependent on alcohol has almost doubled in four years, according to a forthcoming report from the National Institute of Public Health.
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Alcohol abuse on the rise for Swedish women
Society: 13 Jul 09
Alcohol abuse among Swedish women is on the rise, with women over the age of 65 accounting for the most dramatic increase, according to new figures.
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Swedish court rules Texas Hold'em a 'game of skill'
Business & Money: 14 May 09
A Swedish appeals court on Thursday sharply reduced the sentences for four men convicted for arranging an illegal poker tournament, a ruling which experts believe may open the door to more competition for Sweden’s state-owned gambling monopoly.
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Alcohol locks for drunk driving offenders by 2010: minister
Society: 26 Mar 09
Motorists in Sweden convicted of drunken driving or suspected of being alcoholics may be forced to install alcohol locks on their vehicles starting in 2010.
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State pays for drunk driver's wine
National: 22 Jan 09
A man from northern Sweden is to receive compensation from the state after he had his box wine confiscated by police in connection with a drink driving conviction.
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Sweden contemplates alcohol locks for drunk drivers
Society: 10 Oct 08
A new form of punishment for drunk drivers under consideration in Sweden would allow some offenders to keep their driver’s licences provided they installed an alcohol lock on their vehicles.
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'More beer please': Swedish towns struggle to find catchy mottos
Society: 18 Sep 08
Several Swedish towns have discovered that spending a lot of money on a snazzy town slogan may not always bring about the intended result.
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Drink driving pensioner in double trouble
Society: 4 Aug 08
Police in western Sweden must have thought they were seeing double on Sunday night when they picked up the same pensioner for drunk driving twice in the space of four hours.
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Swedish rally driver admits to driving drunk
Sport: 23 Jun 08
Swedish rally driver Daniel Carlsson, who runs a well-known campaign against drunk driving, is suspected of having driven under the influence.
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Drunken officer drove with bottle of Jägermeister in his lap
National: 11 Jun 08
A police officer from Umeå in northern Sweden has been indicted on suspicion of driving while heavily intoxicated after being stopped with an open bottle of Jägermeister in his lap.
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Man sets new Swedish drunk driving record
Society: 15 May 08
A 22-year-old from Varberg in western Sweden may have arranged his own sad entry in the record books.
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Community service for moped teens
National: 25 Apr 08
Four boys have been sentenced to community service for their part in the events that led to the shooting death in southern Sweden of a 15-year-old boy.
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Dozens wrongly accused of drunk driving
National: 26 Mar 08
Around 100 Swedes may have been wrongly suspected for drunk driving due to faulty breathalyzer test machines.
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Father sentenced for drunken driving lesson
National: 18 Mar 08
A 46-year-old Swede has been convicted for drunk driving even though he wasn’t behind the wheel.
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Man gulps his way out of drunk driving citation
National: 28 Feb 08
A suspected drunk driver with a blood-alcohol level ten times over the legal limit was released after claiming he got drunk only after arriving home.
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Firefighter faces drunk driving charge
National: 18 Sep 07
A fireman in western Sweden is facing prosecution after allegedly driving a fire engine into a ditch while heavily under the influence of alcohol. He claims he was just changing channels on the radio.
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Sweden defends state alcohol monopoly
Society: 5 Jun 07
The Swedish government has said that it will defend its restrictive alcohol policy and the Systembolaget retail monopoly. But there were also positive reactions to Tuesday's EU ruling, which paved the way for private imports of alcohol over the internet.
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Mother detained for harbouring son
National: 3 May 07
Police in western Sweden have taken in the mother of a 23-year-old-man who has admitted responsibility for the deaths of two cyclists. The woman reported the car stolen to save her son.
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86-year-old woman caught for drunk driving
National: 30 Apr 07
An erratic driver asked to pull over by police on Sunday evening turned out to be an 86-year-old woman. She admitted to having had a couple of drinks.
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18 year old attacks police station
National: 3 Dec 06
What began as a mild case of damaging public property ended with stones thrown at police, a wild car chase and a violent crash: Sunday morning was unusually dramatic for police at the station in Uppsala.
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Singer jailed for drunk driving
National: 24 Oct 06
The frontman of well-known Swedish dance band Sven Ingvars has been sentenced to two months in prison for drunk driving. Sven-Erik Magnusson was 'very drunk' when he was caught, the prosecutor said.
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Ferrari smash Swede rejects LA plea deal
National: 17 Oct 06
A Swedish former video games executive who allegedly smashed up a stolen million-dollar Ferrari has turned down a plea deal which would have earned him two years and four months in jail.
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Necrophile felt lust as church burned
National: 4 Oct 06
A church warden who had sex with a woman's corpse says he experienced feelings of desire as he set fire to a church.
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Charges over church warden's corpse sex
National: 18 Sep 06
A church warden from a small Swedish town faced criminal charges on Monday after allegedly having sex with a corpse at a church where he worked.
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Sweden could ban mobiles behind the wheel
Society: 17 Aug 06
The Swedish National Road Administration is set once again to study the effects of mobile phone use while driving, after reports that it is more dangerous than previously thought.
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Bodström turns on road killers
Politics: 7 Jul 06
People who cause fatal car crashes could face tougher sentences under plans unveiled by justice minister Thomas Bodström. The news comes after criticism of lax punishments for drink drive killers.
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Drunk bus driver suspended
National: 6 Jul 06
A bus driver who was stopped by police in Värmland on Wednesday evening had a blood alcohol level of 1.88 promille - nine times over the Swedish limit.
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Two dead in Midsummer traffic
National: 24 Jun 06
Two men, aged 23 and 27 years old, have so far died in Sweden's Midsummer traffic. But despite these and other accidents across the country, police say that the traffic has been unusually calm.
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Green politician wins drunk case
Politics: 2 Mar 06
Per Gahrton, a leading figure in the Green Party, has had his conviction for drink driving overturned. The policeman who administered his breath test was not qualified to do so, the court says.
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Top Liberal admits drunk driving
Politics: 19 Feb 06
Liberal Party member of parliament Karin Pilsäter is to leave all her political duties until further notice after driving her car while over the alcohol limit. Pilsäter was caught by a police unit on Saturday.
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Road agency: new tax to stop sick drivers
Science & Technology: 1 Dec 05
The Swedish Road Administration wants every car owner to contribute to the financing of traffic medicine centres, where doctors can send people they think might be medically unfit to drive.
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Police chief avoids drunk driving charges
National: 24 Sep 05
A senior policeman was arrested drunk in his home. Outside stood his car, smashed up after collisions with four other cars. Easy to explain, he says: someone stole it and brought it back.
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Policeman arrested by colleagues for drunk driving
Smörgåsbord: 17 Aug 05
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Vodka taster not guilty of drunk-driving
National: 22 Feb 05
After testing 40 different types of vodka a senior employee of Vin & Sprit is stopped by traffic police and found to be somewhat over the limit. But the appeal court releases her on the grounds that "she had not intended to become intoxicated".
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Woman attacked in queue for test drive
Smörgåsbord: 4 Oct 04
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